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Who and when managed to sell a million pixels on the Internet for a dollar apiece?

In 2005, British student Alex Tew did not have enough money to pay for his studies, and therefore he came up with the idea of selling pixels. Alex created the site milliondollarhomepage.com, where he placed a 1000x1000 image. Anyone could buy a piece of it at a price of $ 1 per point and place an advertisement with a link to their site. In less than half a year, all the pixels were sold out and Alex made a million dollars. Soon there were many followers who tried to raise money for various purposes in the same way, but they managed to bail out much smaller amounts.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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